Smoking Case

November 12, 1985

LONDON — The case of the Mississippi man who refused to snuff out his cigar on a TWA overseas flight is getting hotter. A London court ordered Steven Varvaris, 52, of Jackson, Miss., held without bail Monday on a charge he assaulted another passenger on the flight from Athens, Greece, to New York. Passenger Wayne Nanna was one of several people who asked Varvaris to put out his cigar. A judge refused a bail request after police said they wanted to charge Varvaris with violating the Aviation Security Act, which carries a maximum life sentence. The pilot made an unscheduled landing at Heathrow Airport to deposit Varvaris, who runs an electronic business machine company in Jackson. The case will go to court again Thurdsay.